English Lit: Wider Reading Texts

English Lit: Wider Reading Texts

1. Pygmalion Quotes

   • Burning Eliza clothes by Higgins 'take all her clothes off and burn them' Noun - causing injury to flames could link to the injury of her identity, Higgins causing her pain to some measure
   • 'Pickering shall we ask the baggage to sit down or shall we throw her out the window' concrete noun - insult to Eliza from Higgins showing his cruel personality and also belittles her from the beginning, shows attuide towards women through insults
   • 'Eliza flinches violently but they take no notice of her' verb adverb - shows how she reacts seems very unnanture and uses disturbing imagery to show how she feels effected

2. Fat Black Women Poems Quotes

   • The Fat Black Women goes Shopping
     • 'De weather so cold' Collquial - due to her nation language thats how she would speak therefore giving the reader an insight into her life and therefore showing her differncnes that we can see
     • The choice is lean' noun - showing the unartural dress code, that there isnt much to wear that she will like, so hidding identity with the clothing choices in england pehapes not allowing diversity, Lean - The building is leaning which coudl make it strange/weird.
   • The fat black women composes a black poem
     • 'Quick home run' positive connataions linked with this
     • 'Blackness of a rolling ship' links in with their history of slavery due to the colour of skin 'black as the blackness of a swift backlash' the negative abuse of their identity, becuase of skin differene
   • Like a Beacon
     • 'Craving for my mothers food' powerful noun for wanting, strong desire
     • 'I need this link' & 'I need this touch of home' her identity being lost and missing her true life
   • Fear
     • 'Bruising awkward as plums' the skins not getting along & 'are you going sometime?' when shes going home, doesn't belong
     • 'I think my childs too loving for this fear' juxtaposition between love and fear
   • Two old men sat on a Lesicter Square park bench
     • 'dream revoultions you could of forged or mourn' and 'ghost memories of desire' things they could of made, either been something positive but they didn't do anthing
     • 'coats of silence' awkward impression
     • 'The sun was traded long ago' the identity of the men has beentraded for something else, the life in britain

3. Ann Frank

   • 'we weren't allowed to have a opinion'
   • 'people can tell you to shut up but they can't help you from having a opion'
   • Anne's relationship with her mother slowly deterates 'she' or 'mother' rarely seen more formal prounouns , childish voice talks about death
   • 'was filled with my friends and having a good time' misses the old life she once had
   • 'men, women and children seperated' emtotive language innocent havent done anything
   • Page 202 ends with a italic extract about love, her defintion of love maybe, 'love what is love?' rhertical question asking even herself , states and identity, sexual desires